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TROPICAL WILD LIFE IN BRITISH GUIANA 



PJwto by W. B. 



FIG. 34. SHIPPING CRATES OF LIVE MAMMALS. BIRDS AND REPTILES 

 FROM KALACOON LANDING. 



knew when some especially desirable and rare specimen 

 might not be brought in by an Indian. And then we had 

 to dissemble oin* interest and look upon the creature with in- 

 difference and but slight desire, so that the market prices 

 should not soar, and a precedent be set which would put 

 future treasures beyond our financial reach. Then there 

 came the feeding and care, the boxing and shipping, from our 

 tent-boat to the river steamer, then across Georgetown to 

 the great ocean liner which would transport them north. 



The most searching and the fairest test of the success 

 of any live animal collecting is the record of the creatures 

 which arrive safely and become adapted to life in their new 

 sm-roundings. So I present the lists only of those which 

 reached New York and the Zoological Park in health. 



